See title.  Imo it would be good and would cut out some of the retail middleman.  Of course the games would still need to sell in the stores but this would be a MSFT argument for the future of Live, i.e. discless future.  How about it?

no.

Yes. I honestly have no need for discs. If all games came downloadable, that is the way I would purchase them.

Probably will happen next generation.

I personally want a disc, but I wouldn't mind if full games came to XBLA or PSN, on one condition:

They have to be cheaper. There's no packaging, disc, shipping, retailer cut, etc, like how digital music is usually cheaper than a CD.

They'll need a pretty big hard drive then. Or allow you to save the games to a flash drive that you format through the Xbox with their own file format with some code tied to the thumb drive and your 360 so you can't pirate and what not....

Then yes... I can see it working.

@Jagged You think b/c of the advances in Net infrastructure? They could do it now, however, 8.5 GB is a lot to dl in a short period of time. It could be that they could compress it like the Xbox.

sony have already taken this on board. there quite a few retail games available on psn which i think its great move by sony. although i personally would get a disc if a had the choice.

The retailers will be pisssed though and they will certainly try to force developers/publishers to release hard copies of the games.

One thing is PC going digital, another thing is consoles going digital. Retailers can't survive without them.

I agree with you 100%. The games definitely should be cheaper. By at LEAST $10 - $15. This would be good for everybody.